Development of a micro-computed tomography-based image-guided conformal radiotherapy system for small animals

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 297-305

  Zhou, Hu ^a   Rodriguez, Manuel ^a   Van Den Haak, Fred ^a   Nelson, Geoffrey ^a   Jogani, Rahil ^a   Xu, Jiali ^c   Zhu, Xinzhi ^c   Xian, Yongjiang ^d   Tran, Phuoc T ^a   Felsher, Dean W ^b   Keall, Paul J ^a   Graves, Edward E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PheniCo Inc   (United States)

^d Bright Star Machine   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guidance; MicroCT; Mouse models; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; EX-VIVO; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE-GUIDED; ISOCENTERS; LUNG TISSUE; LUNG TUMOR; MICRO CT; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROCT SCANNERS; MOUSE MODELS; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; POSITIONING ERROR; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROTOCOLS; RADIATION TREATMENTS; SMALL-ANIMAL; SOLID WATER; TARGET LOCALIZATION; TRANSLATION STAGE; VARIABLE APERTURE; X RAY BEAM;

ALIGNMENT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DAMAGE DETECTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIATION DAMAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING; TUMORS; WATER TREATMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

HISTONE H2AX;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG TUMOR; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION INJURY;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROCOMPUTERS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 77955925981     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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